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The Aylesford Skull - Book Review

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Friday, January 18th, 2013

The Aylesford Skull
Author: James P. Blaylock
Publisher: Titan Books (Jan. 15, 2013)
Paperback: 400 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0857689795

The Aylesford Skull, Book Review

The author of The Aylesford Skull, James P. Blaylock, has a gift for transporting the reader to an age of gas lamps, steam, infernal engines and ingenious machines. His writing style is superb and he never strikes a false note.

From first chapter filled with pirates out of Egypt Bay scuttling a ship on the Thames, through wild chases amid the seamy crime filled backstreets of London, the action moves at a breakneck speed. Anarchists, intrigue, forgery, murder and necromancy all play a part of the story. Interwoven with the exploits is a look at both the society of the day and the characters that populate that world.
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Win A Copy Of The Aylesford Skull by James P. Blaylock

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Friday, January 18th, 2013

Win A Copy Of
The Aylesford Skull
(Tale of Langdon St. Ives)
by James P. Blaylock

It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives.
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